"By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over."

“Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.”

Source : Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.34, Penguin

“When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural”

“Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.”

“Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.”

“When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.”

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”

“Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.”

Source : "Sue Townsend: 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

“Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”